Friday, July 27, 2012

High sea's stuck in a port, oh the life of a sailor...Here we sit in Rhode Island just waiting on the wind to change direction and  the sea's to calm a little bit. These are not seas we are use to. It is hard on us to have to wait with little to do. It doesn't make for lots of fun, we would love to move on..The sound of the buoy at the channel entrance calling us to sea..It will have to wait just as we are..The day was spent cleaning the boat and just puttering around. The skies were gray with rain looming all around us.The weather report was for showers and thunderstorms but we only saw a little bit of rain. I cooked the fish we were given for brunch, grilled fish and eggs, boy was that good. Fluke fish, a fish we have never had before boy was it mild and good, plus Carl did a great job cleaning it no bones. The big excitement of the day was when we watched a commercial fishing vessel towed in by the Coast Guard , I guess they don't have Sea Tow.They even got the boat turned around so it was stern into the slip.  It was pretty cool to see.  We wondered if the Coast Guard gives them a bill, does anyone know? No matter that's our sea soldier's or should I say savior's hard at work.. We watched a couple of movies, even a scary one, not our usual.  As the sun set the winds increased and a warning was posted on the TV for mariners. Every 15 to 30 minutes it warned of high sea's,  thunderstorms and 50 mile an hour winds.The weather service advised for mariners to head to port for cover. Were mariners watching TV, that's my question..That was scarier then the movie. We had never seen that back home. Sure they advise of bad weather but not for boaters to head to port.That goes to show you how important sailing the sea's are to people up here. Carl choose to drop another anchor in case it got to us in this harbor. The rest of the day was not much to report.. Hoping for the sea's to calm and us to travel on, that would put a big smile on our faces....

1 comment:

  1. Hurry up and wait! sounds like the military. Hang in there guys your weather break is coming up. We're heading to VT this afternoon for a week, I'll be following along on my phone, and my email works on my phone too. Fancy shmancy. Keep in touch!

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